85 



cample No. 55 was taken. These two soils are of a rather sandy nature. 

 On the farm Uitkonist, adjoining Schuitjes Klip, and about 2J milee to 

 the south-west, sample No. 56, a clay soil, in appearance resembling the 

 clay soils about Malmesbury, was collected. Judging by its agricultural 

 returns, this soil was expected to yield good analytical results, and it 

 certainly does show, in addition to a fair proportion of nitrogen, more 

 lime, potash, and phosphoric oxide than any other soil collected within 

 the Field-Cornetcy. The three soils which complete the circuit in the 

 neighbourhood are sandy loams, clay being more in evidence on the farms 

 west of Uitkonist than on those east of it. No. 57 was taken on the farm 

 Noodhulp, three miles south-west of Uitkomst, No. 58 on the farm Holle 

 Vallei, about 6 miles south-east of Noodhulp, and No. 59 on the farm 

 Kliprug, about three miles south-east of Holle Vallei. The reputation, of 

 the soil is good ; chemically it shows a normal proportion of nitrogen, 

 and, although poor in phosphates, it contains fair amounts of lime and 

 potash. 



It remains to add that samples 7 and 8 were taken on the farm 

 Michiel Heyns Kraal, eight miles south-west of Malmesbury : this is not 

 a grain, but a dairy farm. No. 7 represents a loam and No. 8 a humus 

 soil. No. 1, a sandy loam, was taken from Crown lands at Kalabae Kraal 

 Station, seven miles north-east of the farm Lange Rug in the Cape Divi- 

 sion ; it represented the only uncultivated ground in the vicinity. All 

 the- samples collected on this journey represent virgin soils. 



(Privately collected.) 



No. Field Cornetcy. Farm or place. Collector. 



0. Mosselbanks Rivier. Kalabas Kraal. D. E. Hutchins. 



61. 



62. 



63. ,, 



64. ,, 



65. Greene Kloof East. Alexanderfontein. J. P. Cloete. 

 6t>. ., 



67. ,, ,, 



68. ,, 

 69- 





 71. Middle Zwartland. Leliefontein. C. Nelson. 



From the Kalabas Kraal Outspan five samples were taken: No. 60 

 represents the subsoil from a hill top, and No. 61 the surface soil at the 

 same pla/ce. No. 62 represents a light loam from the valley, and Nos. 63 

 and 64 are sands, the former being from sour veld and the latter mixed 

 sand from the river bed. 



While travelling through the Malmesbury Division in connection 

 with the collection of the samples mentioned in the previous list, atten- 

 tion was frequently directed by the local farmers to numerous slight 

 elevations, from one to four feet in height, and twenty or more yards in 

 diameter; the soil of these hillocks called " heuveltjes " by the farmers 

 was alleged to be extremely rich, and cereals of all kinds were said to 

 grow on them with luxuriance; while on the lower ground, between the 

 legations, the soil would be poor and produce scanty crops. It is not 

 customary so it is asserted ever to manure these hillocks, and some 

 lauds are alleged to have grown wheat for nearly a century without the 

 hillocks either receiving any manure or becoming exhausted. Mr. J. P. 



